Merewether Tram Extension. to the Editor
Sir,—What is the cause of the delay respecting the above work? It appears, from what we learn, that the plans have received the sanction of the Minister for Works. The…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
512 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 26
Terrible Railway Accident in America
A DISASTROUS collision occurred in the Fourth-avenue Tunnel, New York, recently, when a New Haven local passenger train, bound north, approached the station at…
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THE end of another holiday season forcibly suggests the question when the Railway Commissioners intend to broaden and lengthen the present very inconvenient and…
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CONSIDERABLE trouble and annoyance was caused to several passengers by the train which left Newcastle for Wallsend at 10 o'clock on Saturday night. When the long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Land Grant Railway. a Big Undertaking. ADELAIDE
THE Government have entered into a preliminary agreement with Messrs. E. C. Davies and C. A. Wylie for a contract for the construction by them of a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. Tramways in Newcastle
IT is understood that tenders will be invited in the course of a few days for the construction of tramways in the Newcastle district. SEVEN YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Employees on Polling Day
MR. W. GRAHAME last night received a telegram from the Secretary for Railways, stating, in answer to a message from him, that on polling day the employees of the Department will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Railway Accident. Two Goods Trains Collide
ABOUT a quarter to 7 o'clock last evening, a number of pedestrians and residents in the locality of the lower portion of Wolfe street were startled by hearing a succession of loud…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. a Railway Fatality
AT Rylstone, this morning, after the departure of the mail train for Mudgee, some trucks which had been detached from the train were being shifted, when a night officer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Harris v. the Railway Commissioners
This was an action in which Daniel Roger Harris, a carter, sued the Railway Commissioners to recover the sum of £200 for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Australia. Perth, Thursday. Land-grant Railway
The Premier (the Hon. J. Forrest) has signed a provisional agreement on behalf of the colony for the construction of a land-grant railway to Eucla. Mr. Ayres, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bullock Island Bridge
MR. R. D. FITZGERALD, of the Roads and Bridges Department in Sydney, is at present engaged in surveying the site of the proposed now bridge from the mainland to Bullock…
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EVERY day's observation emphasises the truth of the saying that the descent to Avernus is easy, but that to retrace a man's downward steps is the…
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At the council meeting on Thursday night, the Mayor moved the adoption of the improvement committee's report, recommending the kerbing and guttering of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Australia. the Midland Railway
On Thursday the first section of the Midland railway, comprising 40 miles, between Guildford and Gingin, was opened at the latter place by the…
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A VERY considerable delay occurred to the northern railway traffic on Saturday morning by the breakdown of a goods train which left here for Sydney at 3 30 a.m. It had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence Railway Workmen's Votes. to the Editor
SIR,—Can you kindly inform me by whose authority the local understrappers—or, more properly speaking, workshop automata—in charge of the…
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A LARGE and representative meeting of residents of the Barrier was held to-night, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the necessity for extending the Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Government Railways of New South Wales. Secretary's Office, Sydney, 9th April, 1891
Sir,—I have to acknowledge your letter of the 18th ultimo, relative to the permission given to Mr. Lindsay and others to sink a shaft on railway land at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Result of Long Railway Hours
AT an inquest at Charing Cross Hospital London, on the body of a platelayer who was killed outside Charing Cross Station on the South-Eastern Railway, while acting as…
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